J-Street: Alphabet Soup for Kindergarten Thinking

The latest news is that J-Street is hosting a virulently anti-Israel speaker at some conference they're holding. They really ought to embrace the concept of truth-in-advertising and rechristen themselves as terrorist supporters.

Their actions remind me of an old peace poster. Remember "What if they gave a war and nobody came"? J-Street adopts a bizarre distortion of that notion: "what if we made peace and almost everyone agreed?" These guys just do not understand the theological basis, the elemental nature of the hostility raging against not just Israel, but the entire West and even the rest of the non-Islamic world.

These are head-in-the-sand, pie-in-the-sky, wishful-thinking, anti-rational, pseudo-idealists who reject Islamic leaders' own words, delude themselves into denying the clearly stated written goals of various Islamic agencies which intend to force the world to accept Allah as the only god and thus bring the blessings of Sharia to us all. And as with all internal divisions, J-Street forces our energies to be sapped combatting their stupid misdirection, distracting us from and weakening us in our struggle to defend ourselves against an overwhelming and tireless campaign fueled by fundamentalist Islamic irrationality.

Perhaps I do the word "idealist" a disservice by applying it here? A real idealist (there's an interesting contradiction) has desirable goals which might be very difficult to accomplish, but are potentially achievable: Democracy; Universal health care; Freedom from hunger for everyone. J-Street seems to have goals which not only are not achievable, but whose self-deluding, misdirected efforts threaten great harm: Unaided human flight; Breathing underwater without scuba; Just say 'no'; 'Everybody get together, Try to love one another right now' - at least the Youngbloods understood that desirable goals are an effort, not a guarantee. "Try to love..." While peace is a desirable goal, well worth trying, striving for, it requires that the adversary also desire to try. To act without such reflected interest is to guarantee greater harm to those who fail to recognize the hazard, and also to all those who get dragged into their fatal fantasy.

Rather than refer to J-Street as idealists, we should more accurately call them idiots. Noble goals alone don't make an idealist. The process is as important as the purpose, and the range of possible outcomes is the most important constituent of all. J-Street is working hard to assure a horrible outcome, regardless of what they purport to believe. Their self-promotion reminds me of the drunk who looks for his car keys under the street lamp. That's not where he lost them, but the light is better there. J-Street wants peace - who doesn't - but cannot incorporate into their pacific calculus that the enemy absolutely refuses any outcome in which Islam is not totally dominant. That is a price for peace which is too steep for most of us, but J-Street doesn't have a problem with that intransigent requirement. Whether the J-Streeters' reason for ignoring this fatal flaw in their program is an unjustified certitude that they can in some incomprehensible fashion totally alter the value system of hundreds of millions of Muslims or whether they simply do not understand the origin and nature of the problem, the end result will be just as disastrous. Therein lies the pain.